Explanatory note

These Regulations make provision in connection with the certification requirements which have to be satisfied in relation to a contract which is to be certified for the purposes of Article 88 of the Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1998.

Regulation 2 prescribes the persons to whom a board is required to give a copy of a certificate. Every board must give a copy of any certificate issued by it to each person with whom the contract has been, or is to be, entered into and to the person responsible for auditing the board’s accounts.

Regulation 3 prescribes matters which a board is required to deal with in a certificate where it is stated in the certificate that the statutory provision, or one of the statutory provisions, conferring the power to enter into the contract for which the certificate is given is paragraph 13 of Schedule 2 to the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986, or Article 106 of that Order.

Regulation 4 makes provision about the signature of a certificate issued with respect to a contract. A certificate issued by a board must be signed by the chief officer designated by the board concerned.